I'm not sure if you did that right.....the math that is. Shouldn't the inner circumference hold the larger number? Also, wouldn't it make more sense to not measure it in meters per minute, but some other measurement that I can't think of.....I wanna say RPM but that's obviously 7,200....

I'm not sure if you did that right.....the math that is. Shouldn't the inner circumference hold the larger number? Also, wouldn't it make more sense to not measure it in meters per minute, but some other measurement that I can't think of.....I wanna say RPM but that's obviously 7,200....

lol I'm not sure what measurement you want, meters per second? Just divide those numbers by 60. centimeters per second? multiply it by 10/6.

Just look at a CD. The inside edge of a CD - around the hole - , is smaller than the outside edge. So to perform one full rotation in the same amount of time, the outside has to move faster because it has more distance to cover.

lol I'm not sure what measurement you want, meters per second? Just divide those numbers by 60. centimeters per second? multiply it by 10/6.

Just look at a CD. The inside edge of a CD - around the hole - , is smaller than the outside edge. So to perform one full rotation in the same amount of time, the outside has to move faster because it has more distance to cover.

Not by centimeters/meters per second, shouldn't it be completions per minutes or so?

I'm not sure if you did that right.....the math that is. Shouldn't the inner circumference hold the larger number? Also, wouldn't it make more sense to not measure it in meters per minute, but some other measurement that I can't think of.....I wanna say RPM but that's obviously 7,200....

Think of it like this: with one rotation of the platter, you will get more data from the outside in one pass, as one rotation of the outside has more surface area. The whole platter is spinning at the same speed (duh!), so the outside would be quicker.

Even if you install games to a different hard drive, they leave necessary files on the hard drive or partition with the OS. For example, installing Photoshop leaves at least 1.5GBs of files on your OS partition/drive regardless if you install on a seperate hard drive.